28 Days Later 2002

28 Day Later is the English zombie movie that changed the whole dynamic of zombies. All of a sudden the slow walking slow moving zombies you grew up with in films like Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, got a whole lot faster.  All of a sudden people actually had an excuse for getting caught and ate by a zombie, they couldn't out run them.

The movie starts with a young man waking up in a deserted hospital. Not only is the hospital empty but so are the streets of London. The young man seeks refuge in a church but that turns out to be  a bad idea as the priest and people inside appear to be lunatics attempting to catch him and killed him. He's rescued by members of a survivors groups that explains to him that a "rage" virus has taken over all of England and millions are now zombies.

This survivors end up at a fortified mansion type military compound where soldiers have erected barriers to keep the zombies out and shoot them night and day, pretty much for sports. The film is a survivor film but speaks to personal relationships and what they become in this new world and to the inhumanity/humanity of individuals.

This is one of the nest zombie movies of all time.  Great story, action/kills, dialogue and being that it gave birth to a whole new generation of zombies can truly be called ground breaking.  28 Days Later gets an "A" and is not to be missed.